In Lincklaen Centre, N. Y., Dec. 9, 1893, Mrs. Luanna Burdick, aged 85 years, 7 months and 18 days.
This aged sister gave her heart to Jesus when about thirteen years old, under the labors of Eld. Wm. B. Maxson, and was baptized by him into the Seventh-day Baptist Church of Truxton Hill, now Cuyler. She was the last, and lived to be the oldest of a family of thirteen children. Dec. 29, 1846, she was married by her brother, Eld. Russel G. Burdick, to Benj. S. Burdick, of Lincklaen, and Dec. 4, 1847, removed her membership to the Seventh-day Baptist Church of this place. In her later years, she with her husband, united with the Advent Society, and their names were finally dropped from membership in the church. She leaves an aged husband and many relatives and friends to mourn their loss. She had no children, but was not only a faithful and loving wife, but a tender mother to the only daughter of Bro. Burdick, and a young man who was brought up in the family. She was truly a mother in Israel, esteemed and loved by all who knew her. Her house was an asylum for the needy, and the hungry were never turned from her door empty. At her funeral a sermon was preached by the writer from Rev. 14:13, a text chosen by the family. Rev. O. S. Mills assisted in the services. "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth."
A. W. C.
